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GH File 2 missing cuteness. ^^;

So when double checking something for ep 8, I suddenly realised that I couldn't find a scene, and going back to the novels, I realised that a lot of the fun and light banter was missing from the manga. >.<

Missing scene from the manga for story 2. I'd never even noticed... ^^;

**Just after Naru leaves to look into something telling Mai to take care of things at the house.** The novels were primarily written from Mai's point of view.

Ayako: "Just when is he coming back here?"

"What's this? Are you afraid without Naru here?" Bou-san laughed.

Ayako glared at him. "As if. You make it sound like I'm depending on that kid."

"You're not?"

"I'm not! As if that were possible!"

......Ayako, aren't you being a little defensive?

"True, after all, that kid's ten years younger than you," Bou-san smiled slyly.

"There's only a six year difference."

"Either way, your ages aren't well-matched."

Masako said that.

Ayako turned and looked at Masako.

"Guys that age prefer older women. Didn't you know that?"

"As if that could be possible."

"My, you're being rather defensive. Masako-chan, are you interested in Naru?"

"I'd rather you didn't speak like you were gossipping. Likewise, Matsuzaki-san, your age..."

"Don't joke. Given your lousy personality, you're not going to be able to get Naru."

"It's better than being a nasty older woman."

......Give it up. Now's not the time for this sort of talk, right?"

John, looking a little on the spot, cut in between the two. "Shibuya-han's very much a work-minded guy. So most likely he's not interested in that sort of thing, right?"

"He's got a point." Bousan grinned.

"Most likely, he's never been on a date with a girl."

......No doubt.

That's what I thought.

"My. That's not true," Masako replied readily.

......How would you know that?

"After all, I've gone out with him many times." She smiled with her doll-like face.

"......Liar."

Ayako glared at her.

"You're rather rude. In that case, how about asking Kazuya-san?"

......Kazuya......san!?

I had to think about that for an moment. When I realised that was Naru's name, I felt dizzy."

Everyone stared at Masako.

"No doubt it had to do with work, right?"

......Yeah, that's right.

"My. Movies and concerts really don't have much to do with work, do they?"

......Movies and concerts? That work idiot Naru who, never mind movies, doesn't even watch TV? That'd definitely be a date wouldn't it?!

Masako gave a disgustingly charming smile.

We'd all frozen from extreme shock.

John was the first to recover from his shock.

"Well, Shibuya-san is that age, so that will happen. Ratherthanthat, I wonder when he'llbecomin'back."

......John, your confusion's showing in your speech.

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"Hey, Mai-chan."

Eek! ......Mai......chan?

"Will you stay in the living room while I bless it?" Ayako asked with her back to me.

"Ah, you're scared, even though you're a psychic."

"That's not it!" She turned and faced me with a strong look on her face, but it quickly crumbled into something more pathetic. "It's not that but...... it's just......"

This sort of thing really makes me happy. While there's probably no deep meaning to it, when Ayako asked, he didn't make any excuses. But when I asked, he did.

Yeah. I'll leave it at that for a while. Naru thought that having Ayako take things the wrong way didn't matter. But he didn't want me to be under the wrong impression.

Hmmm, that's not likely is it? But I don't care. For now, I'll get ahead of myself and think that way. People have to treasure what makes them happy, right?

I laughed to myself for awhile.

Wow! That was a lot longer than I thought. But it's such a cute scene. I'd forgotten how many sweet and cute scenes like this there were in the novels. All the light banter that sometimes gets lost. And even though the manga follows the novels fairly closely, it does still lose out on this aspect. >.

I've also noticed Mai being targetted by spirits a few times: she's the one pulled into the well, she's the one strangled during Bou-san's exorcism... I think there were a couple others. I'm torn between thinking that's justification for thinking there's something special about her, or just that she's got less protection than the others. And then there's the dreams...

I posted my previous comment before I'd seen Ep. 9, but yeah, you're right. Mai does have a sensitivity to something--Naru-chan refers to it as her "intuition," and he's clearly willing to take a chance on it.

^^; I think it's part of it. There was this and there was also what he'd said to her when she said she wouldn't mind going out with someone younger than her at the end of the first storyline. I can't remember if there were more things in the meantime in story 2...?

I allso think that Mai posesses some sort of power...Does someone know what kind? Her 6 sens is too good to be normal and allso her dreams when she talks to Naru and sees a little bit of future... Maybe she can predict future, but her power is not awakened yet? :) Allso I think that Naru knows that she must be somehow special 'cause there is no other way to have as a coworker some little kid that you barely know.

She does have some sort of power as the other characters will start to notice. The anime will show her being tested for ESP powers later (if the story follows the manga). I want to read the novels!!! Boohoohoo... cannot find...

*grins* That is cute! And thank you, as always, for the extra notation!

I've been wondering about the Monk/Miko chemistry in the anime -- well, they *seem* to be at each other's throats a little too often there. ^_^ Is that something also present in the novels? The way Bou-san and Ayako argue with each other like an old married couple?